Topic-icon easy blog - adding comments and likes to individual posts.

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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #47560 by leo1079
Hi again,

I got to learn from the easy blogs developer that they are yet to integrate with JFBConnect.

Emm.... the bog component has features/options to enable facebook commenting, likes, share blogs & so on.
But I do not wish to introduce any conflict by loading separate javascript by each component. Hence I would rather use JFBConnect for such features across the board for my site.

Having said that I am not sure what is the best way to do this for the individual blog likes & comments. Any thoughts?

I could look at adding {JFBCLike} & {JFBCComments} within the blog entry itself. But I doubt this is the proper solution since blogs are written by users of the site & we should expect them to be abstracted from the underpinnings of how to enable fb likes etc. Ideally, This would be the site's responsibility to enable those buttons across each newly created blog entry, I reckion

Keen to know your thoughts / suggestions.

Thanks
Davis
Last edit: 11 years 8 months ago by leo1079.
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Any thoughts on this one?
I tried to play with the options in JFBConnect -> Social -> Content Plugin Comments/Like

Though it worked for articles, I didn't see any effect on easy blog items...
So not sure how comments & likes can be added to easy blog :(

Thanks
Davis
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Davis,
I apologize for the delayed response. I thought I responded to this earlier, but I think I'm losing my mind.

In general, you shouldn't need to add the tags to each individual post as that would be onerous and annoying. There's a few options that can work for you, depending on what you need.

First, JFBConnect and EasyBlog work very well together. If you want to use their sharing and commenting features, they should work just fine with JFBConnect and not cause any conflicts. Many sites do this without issue. Additionally, our point-reward and email notification features for new shares *should* work with EasyBlog, if you need those features.

If you need additional sharing features that JFBConnect may offer, you can do something like editing the /components/com_easyblog/themes/<YOUR_THEME>/comments.facebook.php file and removing the code between:
<div id="section-comments" class="blog-section">
....
</div>
And adding the EasyTags from JFBConnect that you want to use. You can add these to any theme files from EasyBlog that contain where you'd want the comments or social features to appear.

I hope that helps explain, but if you have any other questions, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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Well, I only require the fb like & comments, hence happy to use the easy blog features for the same.

However, need some guidance on the settings so that I'm 100% sure it wouldn't conflict with JFBConnect.

Attached is the screenshot from EASY BLOG settings.

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1)Do I need to set 'Load facebook scripts' to 'YES'?
2)Do i need to provide the Admin ID / APP ID?

I ask, since I am unsure whether or not to load the fb scripts again (1), also fb was setup once with JFBConnect, so not sure I have to configure again or mere adding of the button will suffice. (2)

I tried the latter by just settings 'Enabling Facebook likes' to YES. I can see the fb button appearing at the bottom of each blog entry, but i don;t think it is working properly. I vist my fb page / account & I don;t see the likes done reflecting there..

Thanks
Davis
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1)Do I need to set 'Load facebook scripts' to 'YES'?

No, they should be disabled. JFBConnect will include the Facebook Javascript on your site. However, you may need to enable the "Always Parse Tags" setting in the JFBConnect -> Configuration area to make sure that other extensions that add the Like button are properly displayed.

2)Do i need to provide the Admin ID / APP ID?

Nope, shouldn't need to.

I hope that helps, but if not, let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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